Kimberly is an emerging artist based in Caves Beach, in the Lake Macquarie region of NSW. She works with oil on canvas as well as watercolour and gouache on paper to represent diverse Australian landscapes.

After studying and working as an educator in the arts, Kimberly further built her practice through mural painting, story-illustration, and exhibition work, most notably as a finalist in the Blackstone Works on Paper and the Hunter Emerging Art prizes.

Catherine White is a jewellery designer/maker residing in Warners Bay NSW.

Her statement pieces reflect her love of nature, drawing inspiration from the repetitive patterns and textures found in her surrounds.

Her works have an industrial yet sculptural form creating functional and tactile pieces for the wearer, being made predominantly of sterling silver and semi -precious gemstones.

Vicki White grew up in Taree NSW & after school left to study Graphic Design at Randwick Technical College. After pursuing a career in Advertising & Corporate Design, she returned to study Fine Art & is a graduate from The College of Fine Art UNSW (now UNSW Art & Design), completing a Bachelor of Fine Art & Master of Art in Painting & Drawing in the 1990’s.

She has been involved in Artist Run Initiatives, participates in group shows & self initiated projects, has been a finalist in numerous art awards including the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Award, The Blake Prize, The Tattersalls Landscape Prize, Fishers Ghost & Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, & has won a number of awards & commendations. She has also worked as an Art Tutor in Aged Care, Mental Health & Childrens’ community services. White works in Sydney & Taree.

Her evolving practice includes painting, video & photography, & considers the notion of landscape as a ‘living source of wisdom, beauty & transformative power”. She’s interested in how pictures can convey feelings & embody memories, through our shared experiences of joy, elation, longing, loss & melancholy. The intimate nature of her work is drawn from her own personal story & that of those close to her, but in essence become universal stories, as she invites the viewer to inhabit the psychological space within the images, & to contemplate the references to the delicate shifts & balances of the human condition.

Art by Nell Studio was born during COVID.

I have always loved being creative and running an Event Management Company, my Company went into hibernation when COVID hit. This left me not knowing how to spend my time.

My Sister gifted me Art Classes in October 2020, so in November I started attending TinKat Alley Studio, I have filled my days while my Company has been in hibernation with Art, and I love it.

I am pleased to share that I have already sold several of my paintings.

Ian recently moved to Lake Macquarie from Sydney’s Northern Beaches and loves the area.

He is happily self taught saying “it allows me to paint the way I want without inheriting someone else’s style”

He paints mainly in acrylic and occasionally oils but his work is always colourful with both his abstract and semi abstract work. He is constantly striving for luminance on the canvas and is primarily interested in colour and value relationships and how they work together with his shapes and textures resulting in a feast for the eyes.

His recent work has been approached with a totally abstract vibe, wanting the freedom to realise and reveal more underlying layers of colour and fluidity of shapes without the specific design principles of realism.

He paints from the heart and invites his audience to feel the joy of colour.

‘I have always had a fascination for native flora and fauna and started with (painting) acrylic on canvas.

I wanted a challenge and started learning about the fine and intricate detail of watercolour. I also enjoy the challenge of architecture with ink and watercolour.

My painting brings me much pleasure.’

Jennifer Lewis Beechley is a renowned artist from Mudgee, specialising in painting landscapes and animal portraits.